Kyleen met them at the entrance. "Good, you're here. I have a few
ideas on who might have taken her." She briskly walked to a shelf
and pulled down a few books and a large stack of papers. She first
picked up the papers, ruffled through them until she found a
newspaper. She pointed to the front page. FORMER PECULIAR ODELIA
MASTOFF ESCAPED FROM RUSTHOLDGE PRISON, NOW CURRENTLY AT LARGE. Max
snapped his fingers. "Aha!" But then he stopped. "But, her power
only lets her hypnotize those in front of her. How would she do
that?" Kyleen opened the books to two different pages. One had a
picture pf a glass orb with a spiral on it, and the other a long
chain with a square made of tiny circles that appeared to be
spinning.
Kyleen pointed to the orb. "It's just that, an Enhancer. It can
take any power and strengthen it." She pointed to the chain. "That
is one of Odelia's inventions, the Hypnotico. It basically is an
incarnation of her powers. Kyleen tapped her chin. My guess is that
Odelia used the Enhancer, hypnotized a student or staff member, and
had them steal the Hypnotico and use it to hypnotize Fauna."
Max nodded. "We've got to sleep on this." Kyleen shrugged. "Sleep
if you want, I'm going to take these to my room and work from
there. I've got a lot to do." Max started to say something, then
stopped. As she walked away, he shook his head. "Ky's always
overworking herself. She hardly sleeps now, and I just know this is
going to keep her up as well." He started walking back to the dorm.
Max couldn't sleep. He stared at the ceiling, thinking about Fauna.
He had known her for so long, they were such close friends. He
couldn't think of a time they hadn't been together. He missed her a
lot. He told himself that the moment he saw Odelia, she was gonna
get a faceful of his hammer for stealing his friend.
The next day, Max woke up to the sound of his Joker alarm clock
laughing in his ear. He was so startled that he fell out of bed!
Once he got the alarm off, he knocked on Boreas's door. "Good
Morning Sleepyhead, we gotta get ready for classes!"
Boreas groaned and sat up, pushing his hair back. "Alright,
alright. Sheesh, you're a Maniac for food."
He grabbed his shoes and headed outside, following Max.
Max rolled his eyes. "You were the one who was sleeping." He pulled
a bomber jacket from his closet over his clothes. "C'mon, don't
wanna be late!" He rushed out the door, running his fingers through
his hair as a replacement for a comb.
Max grinned. "Oh, you're on." He stomped down once, and a tile
sprang up, launching him into the air. He landed on another tile,
that launched him forward. He continued to do this down the hall,
students barley getting out of his way.
"Hah! Check this out!" Boreas lowered his platform and brushed the
floor. Suddenly, a huge wall of glittering mass erupted and
completely blocked the hallway. "Whoops. Sorry!" Boreas yelled out
to all the complaining stuck students.
Max reached the classroom door, and students were nervously
glancing at him after that...fiasco. When Boreas arrived, Max burst
out laughing. "Dude, that was better than the time I flooded the
hallway!"
Max shrugged. "Hey, it was nothing. Nobody got hurt and Boris just
drank it all up." He pointed out a nearby window at a large ogre
that was trimming a tree. "That's Boris, Kevlar's assistant."
Suddenly his eyes lit up. "Kevlar! We can ask him if any students
have been acting weird." "After class." From the shadows, Kyleen
appears. Her arms are full of books, and she's scowling as always.
"You know what happened the last time you skipped class."
Kyleen grimaced. "Frosty Boy? Oh..it's you...I suppose it's
something to be seing you again." Max sighed. "Will you too stop
being so passive agressive and just focus? We gotta get through
this class so we can go see Kevlar!"